Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] GR1 rattling
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:12:42 -0700

>(This is on topic because the GR1 is my M6 back-up...)
>
>Has anybody with a Ricoh GR1 experienced the following problem (and have
>the solution!):
>
>I turn on the camera and the lens moves out, I press the release and the
>lens move a little bit further to focus, so far OK, but when I press the
>release further the camera just rattles four-five times at very high
>frequency, and then lens withdraws to the standby position, but the shutter
>has never opened and thus there is no picture.
>
>I have taken out the battery and put it back in, no change.
>The same thing happens with flash on or off, with distance preset and not,
>and with program mode on and with aperture preset and with automatic mode.
>In short the thing never works!
>
>--
>christer almqvist
>eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440
>14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58

Christer,

This has happened once when the battery was nearly dead. New battery =
everything OK.

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